Garden and Flowers

COMMON FUMITORY

Fumitory appears like a jack-in-the-box, and you suddenly find it flowering away in odd places: in between paving stones alongside the house, in a vegetable garden, or on a forgotten heap of sand. But once you have taken a good look at it, you don’t want to get rid of it again. This is not as simple as it may seem, because small changes in conditions are enough to drive it away. Try planting this indigenous annual in loose, sandy, but moist and fairly nutritive soil in early spring. It will then be able to flower from June until well into autumn on stems which are 4-20 in long and that like leaning up against one another or other plants. You will need to buy the seed from specialists who include wild flowers in their assortment.